The Internet is a good medium for communication. Access is
cheap, generic tools (like browsers) are freely available,
almost everybody can use it. XML is an Internet technology
that provides the possibility to use a vocabulary to tag
information with nametags, giving meaning to the text that
is communicated.

The three most important influences on ceXML are:

Clearly ebXML has got the appropriate context
mechanism, the distinction between generic and specific
information and the idea to use specified business
processes as a tool to handle all the data.

GEN provides ideas for a good user interface and
provokes thoughts on how to exchange information with
existing systems.